Zhang Yan looked at the letter handed over by Cheng Yu, and his brows tightened.

In the letter, these words were written:

-- Zhao Feng supervised the grain in Puwu, was seriously injured and died, and lost 800 pieces of millet rice.

The ancients wrote without punctuation, which actually looked very troublesome. However, the news on this letter was still understood by Zhang Qi at a glance.

Zhao Feng is the elder brother of Zhao Yun and Zhao Yu, that is, the arrogant brother-in-law. In front of some "heavenly opportunities" that were deliberately leaked by the arrogance back then, he hesitated to devote himself to the side of the Taixing Army.

In recent years, in order to make up for the difficulty of insufficient military rations, most of the grain purchased from Jizhou by the Taixing Army was coordinated by Zhao Feng to supervise the transportation. Now, Zhao Feng was attacked and killed in Puwu. Whether it is public or private, Zhao Feng's death is extremely angry.

"Who is it?"

The arrogant anger was undoubtedly revealed in the words. If it was not the military advisor Cheng Yu in front of him, I was afraid that he would be frightened by his arrogant tone!

"At the moment, it's not clear. However, the notice issued by the Jizhou Thorn History Mansion said that it was a group of thieves in Taihang. ”

"Taihang bandits? Joke! ”

The arrogant face turned iron-blue. The so-called "Taihang group of thieves" is headed by the Taixing army in the hands of arrogance. Although there are dozens of bandits, large and small, there are still dozens of bandits, but all of them obey the orders of the Tai March. Those who refused to obey were either buried in the mountains or forced to flee elsewhere.

In this context, which "Taihang group of thieves" dares to fight Zhao Feng's idea?

What's more, when the Taihang army has been recruited today, the Taihang group of thieves can also be regarded as disappearing. However, the Jizhou Thorn History Mansion actually talked about the "Taihang group of thieves". Who is this despising for?

"There must be something wrong with this!"

"Of course, there is a problem."

Cheng Yu handed over a few more notes and concluded:

"Since the sixth day of March this year. As of June 17, a total of nine looting cases have occurred in the counties of Jizhou, which are close to the Taihang Mountains. According to several survivors of the robbers' knives, it must have been the same group of people. ”

With a calm face, he looked at the letters one by one and found the targets that had been plundered. Most of them are local small heroes. The total number of looted property is not too much, and certainly not small. For example, when Zhao Feng was killed, he was robbed of 800 pieces of millet rice, which was more than 400,000 yuan. The rest of those who were plundered lost more than 600,000 or 700,000 yuan, and some of them lost more than 100,000 yuan.

"It really looks like a thief did it?"

"Not really. Observe this group of robbers and strike at a time. Never fails. How can an ordinary thief have the ability to grasp such an accurate tip-off? Looking at the casualties again, ordinary thieves are mostly seeking money, how can they be so ruthless, every time they shoot, they will hurt people's lives? ”

Insolent nodded. He still knows the force of his brother-in-law Zhao Feng. Maybe it can't reach the level of "1000 people broken", but in "100 people beheaded". Zhao Fengdang can be regarded as the best among them.

Such a strong man, among ordinary thieves. It simply won't exist. However, the other party was able to easily defeat or even kill Zhao Feng directly. With such a strong strength, looking at the entire Taihang Mountain area, except for the arrogant Taihang army, there is no second object at all.

"I'm afraid the problem here is not small."

"Mowgli. What is going to be done? ”

"Can I go back to Taihang Mountain?"

In these days, he has been fighting for several months, and he is physically and mentally exhausted. Moreover, he really misses his wife and chick at home.

"No!"

Cheng Yu's answer is not possible to be accommodating.

"Mowgli, you are the master of an army. The hegemony of one side should act with the whole army first. Now that the Huns have been decided, Xianbei has not been eliminated, if you leave these things behind and return to Taihang Mountain for the sake of your children's affection, what should be the morale of the whole army? If you want to return to your teacher, what should you do? ”

- If you kid takes the lead in going home, don't blame your subordinates, they all want to go home and see!

Insolence was deflated.

Only by taking on more responsibilities than others can you be a qualified leader. Today's arrogance, shouldering the expectations of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Taihang Mountain, everything must be considered from the perspective of the overall situation, so that his subordinates can always follow him loyally and set off towards the goal of "the world's armed forces".

"It's not big, it's not small. Mowgli, you can send a powerful and reliable person to investigate one or two. ”

"How about directly letting Dafeng [Zhou Cang] go to investigate?"

"Although Dafeng is loyal, he is afraid that the opportunity will not change. Besides, the investigation of this matter is bound to be protracted. Dafeng has the responsibility of guarding the town, and he is inevitably overwhelmed. ”

In fact, in terms of ability, in Taihang Mountain, there is a more suitable person than Zhou Cang, and that is Zang Ba. It's just that, judging from the information collected about the robbers, Zang Ba is unfortunate and has a lot of similarities with the robbers. In the words of later generations, Zang Ba was "shot while lying down". Since there was such a suspicion, Zhang Qi and Cheng Yu simply did not mention his name.

Of course, this is not that Zhang Qi and Cheng Yu really doubt Zang Ba. It's just that, in order to avoid suspicion, Zang Ba is not suitable to get involved in this matter. Besides, Zang Ba's department, as the most important peripheral force of the Taixing Army, has a lot of things, so there is no need to be so overkill.

After thinking about it like this, Zhang Qiang suddenly thought of someone.

"Let Shi Ah go, what does Mr. think?"

When Cheng Yu heard this name, his expression froze slightly. After thinking about it, Cheng Yu Zhengse said:

"If this person is loyal, he can do it."

Loyalty is a bit of a wonder to Shi A. According to the summary of Zhang Qiang's observations, this Shi Ah seems to be a standard official fan. His loyalty was not at all directed at this person or the force of the Taixing Army, but at the imperial court position of two hundred stones.

In terms of insolence, if there is anyone who can give Shi A an official position higher than two hundred stones, I am afraid that this official fan will immediately leave Tai Xingjun and run under the command of others.

However, as far as Zhang Qi currently knows, there are no high-ranking officials and nobles who are interested in Shi A, a lowly swordsman/assassin. Not only was no one interested in Shi A, but even Shi A's master, Wang Yue, known as the "No. 1 swordsman in the world", was completely ignored by the high-ranking officials of the Han family, and even despised a little.

Otherwise, with the ability and influence of the great hero Wang Yue, why would he still not be able to get a 600 stone official position until now?

Therefore, in the current situation where there is no other suitable candidate, Shi A is already arrogant and can think of the most suitable candidate to investigate the Jizhou thief incident. Come to think of it, there won't be any ministers and nobles at present, who will use high-ranking officials to lure Shi A, right?

Without the temptation of other people's official positions, Shi A will definitely use all his strength to complete the arrogant entrustment.

The plan was set, and he was patrolling Meiji City to investigate the assassination of the treacherous and unscrupulous people, and soon received a summons from the arrogant captain of Taihang.

Shi Ali straightened the clothes on his body, straightened the crown belt on his head, and walked steadily into the county temple hall.

In the lobby, two people sat on the seats. One of them, naturally, is the owner's arrogance. The other person, with red eyes and vague tears between his eyebrows, was Zhao Yun, the captain of the pro-guard team.

"Shi Zhi, I asked you to come here, there is an important matter, please do it."

Shi Ah saluted and replied respectfully:

"If the lord has an order, he will obey it."

Zhang Yan straightened up, pointed at Zhao Yun on the side, and said:

"There is a report from Taihang, my brother-in-law Zhao Feng was unfortunately attacked and killed a few days ago. Now Ayun wants to rush back to Jizhou to mourn his brother. I have a heavy responsibility for the country, and I can't leave easily, so I can only ask Shi to take care of Ah Yun all the way. ”

"Don't worry, my lord. With Shi A, it will definitely not hurt Zhao Baichang. ”

Hearing Shi A's words, my arrogant heart felt a little weird.

You must know that Zhao Yun is a fierce general at the level of "ten thousand enemies", and he seems to be very good at being a bodyguard. How many people in this world have the ability to hurt him?

However, Shi Ah is showing loyalty, and arrogance naturally can't be taken into account. He paused for a moment and continued:

"The death of my brother-in-law has a lot to do with it. Shi Zhi has arrived in Jizhou, so he might as well investigate the matter. ”

Speaking of this, a trace of murderous aura flashed on his arrogant face:

"I want to know who is so bold and dares to come to Lao Tzu's side to spread wild!"

"No!"

Seeing the murderous aura that erupted from Zhang Mad at the last moment, Shi A knew in his heart that investigating Zhao Feng's killing was the main reason why Zhang Mad sent him to Jizhou. Otherwise, with the force that Zhao Yun has spread these days, known as the "top three in the brave army", he still needs to protect it?

After receiving the order of his boss, Shi Ah retreated, and immediately went home to prepare for a long trip.

PS: The third volume is over. Stepping on the corpse of the Northwest Barbarians, Zhang Qi finally got a foundation that could be developed, and truly had the potential to dominate the world.

In the next volume, it will no longer revolve around the protagonist of Insolence. What the author wants to show most in this book is the personal speculation on the history of the early years of the Three Kingdoms in this volume and the next volume. I have to say that the various random arrangements of history and the use of one's own ideas to fabricate history at will are the main pleasures of the author in completing this book.

Without further ado, the next volume: Wanglianlian, I hope that it can make readers feel that there is enough novelty. By the way, I sell myself and boast that this "serial" is not something that you book lovers can think of casually...... (To be continued......)

PS: A new volume, I hope the readers of this book can have new surprises.